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I was just curious what the general experience on this subject was.

(OK, I'll admit it; I'm bored and dodging work as well...)

edit: Added the "black" option

I keep it red... once tried it the green way... not enough "show" effect. Everybody knews blood red, so everybody started asking me, ...he, what this green stuff on his green skin...

So i keep it RED, dammit!

Traveller

Red in Blood Bowl !
And black in Lord of the rings : the two towers, to avoid the censorship.

Trambi wrote:Red in Blood Bowl !
And black in Lord of the rings : the two towers, to avoid the censorship.

The orcs in Tolkiens world do have black blood. At least that thing is right in the movie. But this question, I thought, was about the games workshop orcs... Green was the first impression that came to my mind. Probably someone could point us to a literary reference from GW material that states the colour?

I think that it was stated in WH40K that they bleed green

In that universe, however, they're a kind of fungus and don't have a sex (and thus they won't have sex, to be faster than the other frustrated guys around here)

Don't really know what the "official" GW colour is.

Just bring a lot of differently bleeding GW orcs to an official tournament, and see which get banned for bleeding wrong

I'm a traditionalist in this respect - so I followed Tolkien and said that orc blood is black.

To be honest, some of GW ideas leave me a little cold. My orcs tend to more grey-green (a la D&D) than the standard GW green. Equally, this "Book of Grudges" dwarf-thing is complete nonsense.

Cheers,
Martyn

I think i will start using the green "glow in the dark" stuff for blood.... it will look like the stuff dripped by the Preadtor in al the movies

I've found even with 40k Orks that red blood works the best. As green and red are color wheel-opposites, the contrast can't be beat. I tried a bright green once, and someone asked me why my Orks were all snotty. Black doesn't seem like it would stand out enough. Well, that's my 2 cents.

-Zergo

I paint my Orcs with red blood purely for the visual effect. Realistically however I would say orcs should have dark green blood. Using Humans as the base argument: Humans are generally a pale pink through to dark brown in colour - all shades on the red side of the spectrum. So a creature with green skin should equally have blood that is from the same colour spectrum, and probably slightly darker than it's skin colour (with the exception of black orcs)... thus a dark green, probably verging on black.

I agree with Zergo, It looks way best if you paint the blood red. I once tried to paint orc blood dark green, but I wasn't satisfied with the result. It didn't look like what it what supposed to.

Therefore I voted red. If I didn't paint minis I would have voted green though.

In the Gotrek and Felix books (Troll Slayer, Skaven Slayer....) I think I recall the blood being either dark green or Black.

martynq wrote:I'm a traditionalist in this respect - so I followed Tolkien and said that orc blood is black.
To be honest, some of GW ideas leave me a little cold. My orcs tend to more grey-green (a la D&D) than the standard GW green. Equally, this "Book of Grudges" dwarf-thing is complete nonsense.

I consider the GW and Tolkien orcs to be different in almost every respect except the name and their warlike nature. After all, Tolkien orcs were blackish in skin colour, not green.

The arguement in 40k was their blood has the same chemical make up as humans/eldar etc, so was red.

Yeah, it's red in one of the 40K Ork rulebooks. I ain't dredging through them all to find a quote though..I think it's green and exposure to oxygen turns it red.
Or something.

It was in a white dwarf I think, that orcs bleed red, they gave the fluff reason, which I can't remember, but red their other reason was red shows up well and looks cool against the green skin, while green makes it look like you messed up with your painting